Patents by Inventor Stephen Jay Shellhammer
Stephen Jay Shellhammer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11102036Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for identifying wake-up signals. Some implementations more specifically relate to PHY preamble designs for wake-up signals such as Wake-Up Radio (WUR) packets conforming to IEEE 802.11ba. In some implementations, the preamble designs can include a combination of modulation schemes, data rate indications and length indications enabling devices capable of receiving and decoding wake-up signals to identify the signals as wake-up signals (for example, WUR packets), while ensuring that devices not capable of receiving and decoding wake-up signals identify the wake-up signals as legacy packets, or otherwise not WUR packets.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Geert Arnout Awater, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Albert Van Zelst, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Nitin Ravinder, Muhammed Faruk Gencel
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Publication number: 20210211229Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for encoding data in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to performing a first encoding operation on data bits of a code block to shape the amplitudes of the resultant symbols such that the amplitudes have a non-uniform distribution. In some aspects, the probabilities associated with the respective amplitudes generally increase with decreasing amplitude. For example, the non-uniform distribution of the amplitudes of the symbols may be approximately Gaussian. In some aspects, the first encoding operation is or includes a prefix encoding operation having an effective coding rate greater than 0.94 but less than 1. The first encoding operation is followed by a second encoding operation that also adds redundancy but does not alter the data bits themselves. In some aspects, the second encoding operation is or includes a low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoding operation associated with a coding rate greater than 5/6.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Dung Ngoc DOAN, Lin Yang, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Bin Tian, Thomas Joseph Richardson, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Patent number: 11057830Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. An access point (AP) may identify a jitter pattern for a wakeup message. A station may listen using a wakeup radio for a wakeup message during wakeup listening periods according to the identified jitter pattern. A station may receive a preamble having a first bandwidth and a wakeup message having a second bandwidth. An AP may transmit an identifier key to a station, and the station may determine a rotating identifier associated with the AP based on the received identifier key. The station may receive a wakeup message from the AP, compare a sender identifier with the rotating identifier, and power on a second radio. A station may also receive a wakeup message that includes an indication of which station are to be activated.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Linhai He, Bin Tian
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Publication number: 20210194629Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for a link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one aspect, the link adaptation protocol may be used to select a transmission rate option (such as a modulation and coding scheme (MCS)) for communications from a first WLAN device to a second WLAN device based on wireless channel conditions. This disclosure includes several example message sequences for the link adaptation protocol which can accommodate a variety of uplink or downlink data transmission designs, including single user (SU) and multi-user (MU) transmissions. The example message sequences may be used with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), and beamformed transmissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Sameer Vermani, Lin Yang, Jialing Li Chen, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian
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Publication number: 20210176657Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for link adaptation in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A link adaptation test packet from a first WLAN device to a second WLAN device may be formatted as a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmission and may include one or more test portions for link quality estimation of the MIMO transmission. A link quality estimation portion of the test packet may permit measurement of link quality for various spatial streams of the MIMO transmission. The link adaptation test packet may enable a fast rate adaptation of a communication link based on the impact of interference to the various spatial streams. The second WLAN device may provide feedback information regarding the one or more test portions. The feedback information may be used to determine a transmission rate for a subsequent transmission from the first WLAN device to the second WLAN device based on wireless channel conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Sameer Vermani, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Jialing Li Chen
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Publication number: 20210167889Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for link adaptation in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A link adaptation test packet from a first WLAN device to a second WLAN may include a plurality of link adaptation test portions that are generated using a corresponding plurality of transmission rate options. For example, the plurality of link adaptation test portions may be modulated using different modulation and coding scheme (MCS) options. Thus, a single test packet may be used to evaluate different transmission rate options. The second WLAN device may provide feedback information regarding the link adaptation test portions. The feedback information may be used to determine a transmission rate for a subsequent transmission from the first WLAN device to the second WLAN device based on wireless channel conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Dung Ngoc Doan, Sameer Vermani, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Jialing Li Chen
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Patent number: 11026172Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for establishing communications with one or more devices. In one aspect, a first device generates a wake-up radio (WUR) frame, the WUR frame including a media access control (MAC) header and a frame check sequence (FCS) having a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) or a message integrity check (MIC). The first device may determine the FCS based, at least in part, on the MAC header and basic service set identifier (BSSID) information associated with the first device. The first device may output the WUR frame for transmission to one or more devices. A second device may receive the WUR frame from the first device and determine whether the WUR frame is directed to the second device based, at least in part, on comparing the FCS of the WUR frame with a calculated FCS.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Publication number: 20210144778Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for priority access on a shared wireless channel. A priority station (STA), an access point (AP), or a network operator may activate a priority access service. The priority access service provides priority access to authorize priority STAs by allowing them to use more aggressive contention parameters for contention-based access of the wireless channel as compared to other STAs. In some implementations, non-priority STAs may be configured with weakened contention parameters to increase or ensure the likelihood that a priority STA will win contention for access to the wireless channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Publication number: 20210135792Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A first WLAN device may generate a first HARQ packet for transmission to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine a first basic service set (BSS) indicator and a second BSS indicator for a BSS associated with the first WLAN device and the second WLAN device. The first BSS indicator and the second BSS indicator may be indicative of a BSS identifier (BSSID) of the BSS. The first WLAN device may output the first HARQ packet for transmission to the second WLAN device. The first HARQ packet may include the first BSS indicator and the second BSS indicator in one or more fields of a physical layer (PHY) header of the first HARQ packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: James Simon Cho, Tao-Fei Samuel Ng, Youhan Kim, Bin Tian, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV
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Patent number: 10999014Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A station (STA) may send a HARQ transmission to another STA. The HARQ protocol may support the use of different types of feedback from the receiving STA to control the HARQ retransmission process. This disclosure provides example message formats to support HARQ transmission and HARQ feedback in a WLAN.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bin Tian, Hemanth Sampath, Sameer Vermani, Lin Yang, Dung Ngoc Doan, Simone Merlin, Alfred Asterjadhi, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Publication number: 20210067214Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for implementing a joint transmission feature in a wireless communication system. Using the joint transmission feature, multiple access points (APs) may use an aggregated collection of antennas of multiple APs to simultaneously transmit a joint beamformed transmission to one or more stations (STAs). The techniques in this disclosure may prevent or reduce variations in relative gain adjustments by the APs that could otherwise negatively impact the joint transmission. In some implementations, a network device may determine a normalized gain adjustment value based on power parameters associated with each of the multiple APs. In some other implementations, each AP may determine the normalized gain adjustment value based on power parameters shared between the APs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Youhan Kim
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Publication number: 20210036809Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first HARQ frame may include initial transmissions of a first plurality of forward error correction (FEC) codewords. The HARQ protocol may support new techniques for feedback, such as a feedback capability in which a bitmap may be used to indicate decoding failures of codewords. The first feedback message may include indicators to change a HARQ configuration parameter based on channel conditions. In some implementations, the second HARQ frame may combine retransmissions regarding the failed codewords with initial transmissions of a second plurality of codewords.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Jialing Li Chen, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian, Alfred Asterjadhi
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Publication number: 20210029632Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Lochan Verma
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Publication number: 20210014792Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining one or more tone sequences (for example, for wake-up procedures). In one aspect, an access point (AP) may wake a mobile station (STA) from a low power mode using a wake-up packet, where an ON symbol of the wake-up packet is modulated using a tone sequence. To reduce the likelihood of a STA falsely identifying the ON symbol as a packet preamble, the AP may implement a tone sequence that satisfies a correlation metric threshold. For example, for a set of candidate tone sequences, each tone sequence may be associated with a correlation metric and peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) coordinate pair, and the tone sequence for modulating the ON symbol of the wake-up packet may be selected from a lower convex hull of the coordinate pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Geert Arnout Awater, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Bin Tian
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MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN)
Publication number: 20210006360Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may receive a first feedback message from the second WLAN device. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message. The first WLAN device may determine to enable the HARQ protocol based on the first feedback message. The first WLAN device may receive an indication of an amount of memory available at the second WLAN device for processing HARQ transmissions. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device based, at least in part, on the amount of memory available at the second WLAN device for processing HARQ transmissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Lochan Verma, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian -
Publication number: 20210006361Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine whether a first feedback message received from the second WLAN device includes HARQ acknowledgement information or non-HARQ acknowledgment information. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message having a multi-station Block ACK (M-BA) frame format that includes HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device in response to determining the first feedback message includes the HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a non-HARQ frame in response to determining the first feedback message includes non-HARQ acknowledgement information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Lochan Verma, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian
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Publication number: 20210007006Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems of wireless communication in accordance with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) techniques. Some implementations more specifically relate to aligning aggregate medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (A-MPDU) subframes with codeword boundaries in a physical-layer service data unit (PSDU). The alignment may be performed by selectively adding padding bits to the PSDU based on the size of each A-MPDU subframe and the lengths of the codewords. In some aspects, an A-MPDU subframe may be aligned with a first codeword of the PSDU so that the first A-MPDU subframe is encoded exclusively within the first codeword. In some other aspects, an A-MPDU subframe may be aligned with two or more contiguous codewords of the PSDU so that the two or more contiguous codewords include the A-MPDU subframe and no portions of any other A-MPDU subframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Alfred Asterjadhi, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil
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Patent number: 10856222Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Lochan Verma
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Patent number: 10827556Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for efficient support of connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) by using a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) with a second receiver. A wireless device with two receivers may place one receiver in a low power mode and take the receiver out of the low power mode in response to a signal received from a serving base station (BS) of the wireless device. A BS may direct a wireless device to enter a low power DRX (LP-DRX) mode or enhanced DRX mode having longer low power cycles than a non-enhanced DRX mode, and the wireless device may place a primary receiver in a low power mode in response to the directive from the BS. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Tingfang Ji, Joseph Patrick Burke, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, John Edward Smee
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Publication number: 20200344007Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for data retransmissions in a wireless network. In some implementations, a wireless communication device may transmit a first data unit to a receiving device, may receive a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback frame indicating that a portion of the first data unit was not successfully decoded by the receiving device, may retransmit the indicated portion of the first data unit to the receiving device in response to the first HARQ feedback frame, and may transmit a second data unit, different than the first data unit, to the receiving device concurrently with the retransmission of the indicated portion of the first data unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Alfred Asterjadhi, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian, Youhan Kim